Trump gets the peaceful transfer of power his supporters violently refused four years ago

Another moral victory for Democrats. If only such victories mattered.
- Imagine a tug of rope where only one side is pulling.
  
  The other side just pushed the rope, it doesn't necessarily put the other side at any more of an advantage than just letting go, but it absolutely puts you at a disadvantage because well, you just can't be bothered to pull that rope as well as signalling you're not willing to play the game. Rejecting progressives was pushing the rope, Liz fucking Cheney and all the Republican pandering was pushing the rope. The last minute drop out was pushing the rope.
  I'm not giving these shitters another vote until they run serious progressive politicians and policies. We are at rock bottom, and I'll be damned if I enable this shit again.
- This stuff annoys me so much. I would not vote for them if they acted like republicans.
  
  Over 90 million eligible voters didn't vote for either Trump or Harris in 2024. If Democrats had managed to get just a few percent of those people to vote for them in key swing districts, she would have won. I think they could have done that without having to "act like Republicans."
  
  About 10 million people agree with you judging by the election results.
  
  So you don't want them to punish politicians who break the law? 🤔 Because Republicans don't mind making politicians in the other side pay for their mistakes, but Democrats always let them have a free pass in the name of "healing 🥰"
  
  The British lost in the Revolutionary War partly due to their rigidity towards tradition and formality.
  To your point, we should not be voting for candidates from either major party.
  
  in a vacuum this isnt the wrong thing to do, but in context this is the capstone of a series of "we've tried nothing and we're out of ideas".
- How you expect this would end up if Democrats would do January 6th?
  VP has no such power, what they were trying to do in 2021 was to make Pence do it and hope it would be unchallenged. And if someone challenged it hoping that conservative court would side with Republicans like they did in 2001.
  
  Firehosing wet gristle into the storm drains after multiple entrenched units opened fully automatic fire at head level into the crowd.
  Followed by oooh, let's call it 150 years of denying it ever happened and using the phrases "Bloody Tuesday" "Inauguration elimination" or "January 6th. 2025" in any online medium results in an annual audit for your entire extended family and local police having a picture of you and a set of darts delivered.
- The big imaginary arbiter is going to drop down from the sky, any day now.

Ah yes, Dems adhere to longstanding norms and lose while Republicans lie, cheat, exploit, steal, and win. What a fun game.
- If there is nothing in place to prevent the lieing, cheating, and stealing then you're really just putting yourself at a disadvantages by not doing it.
  
  There are but the Dems refused to use them.
  
  at this point the media and internet is mostly dominated by republican sympathetic sycophants, its going to be incredibly hard for the democrats to ever win again. they're going to do everything in their power to move the peices to secure the GOP's control indefinetely, so that even once Trump is dead, they'll still win the elections. because guess what, people are fickle, petty, and stupid. and its very easy to use the media, TV Internet or otherwise, to sway opinions.
  I am not blind that this is likely just as much Foreign involvement as it is domestic action. Russia is pulling a lot of the puppet strings behind this movement. So much so that I think they even have leverage on not just Trump, but probably Elon Musk too. Elon is small potatoes compared to the wealth of Vladimir Putin, a man who stole from a cartoonishly wealthy in material country for 25 years and put it straight into his pockets.
  
  lieing
  It's "lying". It's spelled the same as lying (down).
  
  By normalizing these behaviours yhu create the moral and political framework in which your opponent thrives. Fascist dont need to win. They can just wait for "Democrats" to dismantle themselves.
  Also pretending like the Democratic party isnt big on lying, cheating and stealing too, does not help either. They lost because what they pretended to be and what they really are disparged a lot. The Trumpists are honest about who they are, so they attract the same kind of people, wheras the Dems did everything to alienate people with morals.
  And then the Dems turned around and attacked the minorities they pretended to want to protect from Trump, because they didnt suck up to them anymore.
- What I like is the speech Kamela gave afterwards about fighting for your rights. Do you even see yourself, "democrats", and what you have become!? I'll be proven wrong if "democracy", or what passes for it in the current oligarchy, manages to survive a Trump presidency. I don't think I will be, I think this is really it.

Just a reminder, since these people view everything through the lens of power they view the peaceful transfer of power as us being weak and them being strong and that we're giving in because "we know they can kick our ass" or some dumb shit. Basically, they view things like this as though we're cowering in the corner begging them to stop when it's really the basics of a functioning society.
- Problem is they seem to be correct

Kamala had a chance to do the funniest thing.

Huh, no presentation of the gallows this time. Must be budget cuts.
- Have you seen the price of lumber lately?
  
  I remember when you could buy a 2x4 for a buck. It wasn't that many years ago.

America has decided to roll over and let fascism take root.
Our ancestors would be utterly ashamed.
- I'm more concerned with what our descendents are going to think.
  
  They won’t think much of anything, considering what Trump is about to do to the Department of Education.
  
  Just be glad most of us won't be around anymore to find out
- You mean the slave owners who only wanted white landowners to vote?
  
  Mine were the ones fleeing Italian fascism who thought this would be better.
- Is there a way to save a comment so it alerts me back to it 4 years from now?
  
  Make a Google calendar event with a permalink to it ¯(ツ)/¯
  
  Yeah, but it requires learning. You may not have that option soon with what Republicans ran on doing to our education system.

Yeah, but fuck 'im.

Don't worry Democrats will run Hillary in 2028, surely she'll win this time!
- Ah yes, we can now see she simply wasn't old enough yet
- DNC staff: if you're reading this - this is a joke. We do not in fact want Hillary Clinton to run. Please. No.
  4 fears later: Oh ffs....
- In 2028 Democrats will run Eric Trump (Don Jr for the red team).
- Please not her. Find somebody younger!
- Cute you think there will be a free election in 2028 lol

If you only believe that elections are "fair" when your side wins, then you don't believe in elections.

Oh c'mon Biden, it's not too late to have him official business'd!
- Honestly, he should push that law to its limit before trump abuses it daily.

The cohort that controls the Democratic Party are perfectly content to pantomime gentlemanly decorum while being led into the ovens of a fascist authoritarian oligarchy. I’m just completely done with their bullshit.
- Trump's gonna literally try to kill them all. They made their own graves with this milquetoast bullshit.

Would've been pretty funny to have Democrat version of January 6th
- You just saw it. A peaceful transition
  
  No I mean if they threw a fit and caused a ruckus like Republicans. Some have been calling for that and knowing the Democrat reaction back then, it would've been funny.

Well the American left wouldn't turn out to vote, what makes you think they'd try and storm the capital?

Look how impotent the DNC is. It's like some guy said, "I'm going to do everything in my power to take your car away and drive it off a cliff." And after saying, "noo stop, you cant" they hand over the keys.

Yay?

ITT: People who want authoritarianism but only if it's the other team.

Him and his supporters. It wasn't just the Capitol, it was the fake electors, the pressuring of his VP not to certify, the "find me more votes" call to governors, etc. There are no consequences for this fuck...
- It really solidifies our judicial system as a joke. I hope he's eaten by fears of extrajudicial remedies, but he honestly seems too stupid to understand the risk.

Because it's better to be right than create change...
- "You might be dead right, you're still dead!"
  -A Republican message to the Democrats

Its not going to make him understand anything. If at all, it will just confirm his biases